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  Holy roasted chestnuts, it’s HOLIDAY TIME!  (Again.)  Can you even believe it’s lept up on us again so quick?  Ugh, I don’t think I’m ready for all the shopping, the wrapping, the partying, the bill-paying,  the egg nogging…scratch that!  I am totally ready for ...

  Whenever the holidays would roll around, along with the inevitable bevy of  holiday sweets and treats, I would always, as my mother would always so delicately put it, start to “store up for winter.”  Meaning: Gain Five Pounds.  However, as the new year approaches, I feel that I store up th...

  …because we’ve got some hot deals this week!  It’s so easy to get down on yourself for spending too much, working too little, working not hard enough.  Not today, people!  Today, we get to celebrate the power of your hard-earned, precious dollar bills. Get some bang for your ...

  Halloween should be the best holiday of the year.  Free candy?  Yes, ma’am!  Of course, it is a kid-centric day, and it really is only the kiddies who benefit from the free part of the day.  (After all, who buys all that “free” candy?  You got it: the mamas.)  Still…...

  No one can quite agree on the state of the economy these days.  Is the recession over?  Has it just begun?  Are we at the threshold of a *gasp* double-recession?!  Who can tell anymore?  Now would be just the right time for a wallet-saving superhero to fly in, stuff my wallet full of brand-s...

  It’s the dog days of summer, and I’ve been spending some time holed up in air conditioning with plenty of water, waiting out this heat wave and stumbling on some fabulous websites and hidden deals.  Keep reading to check out Girl on a Budget’s Final Hot Faves of the Summer! GRE...

  In theory, thrift stores should be the greatest tool of the Thrifty Lady.  Everyone loves the idea of the thrift store: people donate unwanted clothes, other people buy them dirt cheap.  (Plus, good jobs are given to the hardworking salesclerks and managers of such Good Samaritan operations as ...

  When I was fifteen, going out was a production.  That actually might even be an understatement.  Leaving my parent’s home after nightfall was exhilarating.  Dangerous.  Wild and sexy freedom.  Who knew what could happen once I stepped outside of my mother’s gaze?  Unfortunately,...

  Men.  The light of my life.  And yet also equal parts the bane of my existence.  It seems to be a popular topic lately around here at Cougar Candy Store, as Linda so surely put it.  Is it something in the water?  Something midsummer-ish in their immature behavior?  Whatever it is…we a...

  I love summer.  I mean, wow, I can’t even tell you how much I love summertime.  Maybe it’s the proliferation of events centered around hot dogs and popsicles, maybe it’s weekend trips to the beach, or perhaps the easy yet fashionable choice to wear floaty empire-waisted sundre...